I gave a lesson, Temperature 101, about a year ago. It garnered a lot of comments – for this blog anyway. It is truly astonishing, I thought then, how obtuse the Denialists are, and how marvelously blithely indifferent they are to the sources of their Flat Earth thinking: the paid shills of the fossil fuel […]
– Overview – The Met Office in the UK reports that 2010 is on track to be the warmest or second-warmest year in the instrumental record. Other science, based on massive data, supports that view. (See graphic above and NOAA’s annual State of the Climate report.) Meanwhile, the Post-Copenhagen international climate negotiations continued and culminated […]
If increases in global air temperatures or decreases in Arctic sea ice aren’t enough to convince you of the clear and present danger of the climate crisis, then maybe looking at eight other indicators that show the same trend might be. “Past Decade Warmest on Record According to Scientists in 48 Countries – Earth has […]
The Obama Administration has announced the creation of a new national service to study and report on climate change. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, already deeply involved in climate science and reporting, will be the parent agency. In this article, CBS News quotes NOAA’s head, Dr. Jane Lubchenco: “More and more people are asking […]